Nocturne - the Splendour Falls on Castle Walls
Britten: Serenade for Tenor, Horn and Strings - Les Illuminations - Nocturne
Hymn - Queen and Huntress Chaste and Fair
Sonnet - O Soft Embalmer of the Still Midnight
I. On a poet's lips I slept
Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, William Waterhouse, Gervase de Peyer, Denis Blyth
II. Below the thunders of the upper deep
Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Roger Lord, Barry Tuckwell, Gervase de Peyer, Denis Blyth, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra
III. Encintured with a twine of leaves
William Waterhouse, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Lord, Denis Blyth, Alexander Murray, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Osian Ellis, Gervase de Peyer
IV. Midnight's bell goes ting, ting, ting
William Waterhouse, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Osian Ellis, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Murray, Barry Tuckwell
V. But that night when on my bed I lay
Gervase de Peyer, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Alexander Murray, Roger Lord, William Waterhouse, Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis, Barry Tuckwell
VI. She sleeps on soft, last breaths
Gervase de Peyer, Barry Tuckwell, Roger Lord, Alexander Murray, Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis, William Waterhouse, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra
VII. What is more gentle than a wind in summer?
Barry Tuckwell, Denis Blyth, Osian Ellis, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Roger Lord, Gervase de Peyer, Alexander Murray, William Waterhouse
VIII. When most I wink, then do mine eyes best see
William Waterhouse, Osian Ellis, Alexander Murray, Roger Lord, Denis Blyth, Sir Peter Pears, London Symphony Orchestra, Gervase de Peyer, Barry Tuckwell
Production
- Erik SmithProducer
- John CulshawProducer
- James WalkerProducer
- Gordon ParryRecording Engineer
- John CulshawRecording Engineer
- Kenneth WilkinsonRecording Engineer
- Alan ReeveBalance Engineer